Best Gun For Shooting Indoors

This is a discussion on Best Gun For Shooting Indoors within the Defensive Ammunition & Ballistics forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Been looking at recent post about 357 muzzleflash and begain to consider my pick for shooting inside a car or house. I have fired many ...

Best Gun For Shooting Indoors

Been looking at recent post about 357 muzzleflash and begain to consider my pick for shooting inside a car or house. I have fired many 357 mag rounds at night and found the 145 grain ww silvertips had the lowest flash, recoil and noise of all I tested. That being said the 357 my still be to loud. I was wondering if the noise question has been talked about here. I would think a standard loaded 45 auto with 5 inch barrel may be the best but would like your opinion.

No. Go to the Taurus website and look at the Judge video. I have one and hands down you have a larger pattern than any bullet out there. *Don't buy the UL, however, because you cannot use a 3" 410 shell--only 2 1/2--and the bullistics are dramatically different and possibly uneffective against stopping an intruder.

I keep a secondary pair of headset ear protectors hung on the closet door handle in my bedroom.
Additional to that I keep two pair of foam inner ear protectors inside the safe where I keep my HD pistols.

If I am firing at someone who broke into my house, I am not worried about noise. I am worried about stopping them from harming my wife and children.

Ditto....+1. Also....not including the +p ammo, I figure the sound pretty much goes along with the size of the case, the amount of powder, and the speed of the projectile. We might also figure that sound and flash may very well be more in revolvers than semi-auto pistols, and may even be more in shorter barreled pistols say 3" rather than the 5" pistols. All that being said, firing any pistol 9mm and up is going to stretch your eardrum to the max in closed quarters. As been discussed here somewhat before, surges of adrenaline in the body may also play a role in hearing conservation and focus. The human body has a lot of automatic defenses. Again....deaf or dead?

I've heard loud bangs in enclosed places before and I still hear fine. God forbid you should have an encounter but it will only last a very short while. If you are the winner you wont care if your ear aches a little. It's not like you shoot in the house every weekend for God's sake.